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1d. Thread bumping:
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1e. Chat room
flooding:
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other participants by intentionally filling up the screen with large
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Offensive material: Do not post crude sexual references
or material, images or links containing
pornography, gore, excessive violence, sexually explicit content, images
of death or other overly graphic material. Remember that we have visitors
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2b. Illegal material: Do not post
material which is violative of any law or which describes illegal
activities such as taking, growing, buying or selling drugs, the sale or promotion of weapons, hacking, downloading pirated software, movies
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Note: To clarify; a discussion for
example in response to a news item about drug legalisation is
acceptable, but describing or promoting personal drug use, using the
site to organise the distribution of drugs or to promote, organise or
undertake any other illegal act is strictly forbidden. |
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2c. Copyrighted
material: If you quote text from
another web site then please properly credit the source. Not doing so
constitutes plagiarism, always include a source link with quoted
material. Members are asked to copy only as much as is necessary when
quoting copyrighted material from other web sites, do not copy and paste
entire articles or web pages. |
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2d. Accuracy:
Do not post material that is knowingly or
intentionally false, inaccurate or misleading. |
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2e. Garbage posting:
Do not deliberately make posts of little worth or that contain
nonsense, this includes making numerous short non-constructive posts
designed to quickly inflate your post count or to annoy other members. |
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2f. Private content:
Do not post the content of private
messages, e-mails or the personal contact details of other members. This also applies to the contact
details, e-mails etc. of non-members and to other offline
correspondences. The content of private correspondences sent by site
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copyrighted to the sender and should not be reproduced, published or
distributed outside of this web site through any means without prior
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2g. Language:
As this is an English speaking site we ask
that our members post only in English.
Mobile phone shorthand, fictional languages and "leetspeak" are
disallowed. |
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2h. Agenda posting:
Do not use the site to promote an agenda.
This often involves the starting of forum threads or making posts which appear
to be legitimate in nature but which are aimed at surreptitiously
promoting some political view, religious belief or to attack or
criticise other members, beliefs or views in an underhand manner which
detracts from unbiased and fair discussion. |
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2i. Medical advice:
Do not use the site to request medical
assistance, you are always best to seek the advice of your doctor. Discussions
pertaining to medical topics, discoveries and research are acceptable so
long as they avoid recommending treatments to specific members.
Similarly, promoting or recommending alternative or potentially harmful medications to visitors such as
vitamin mega dosing, human growth hormones, prescription drug abuse, white powder of gold, psychic experience inducing
drugs or anything similar is disallowed. |
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2j. Preaching:
Do not promote or push religious beliefs on to
others, we have visitors from all over the world of many different
faiths and we ask that all beliefs be respected. Using the site to
preach to, convert other members or to 'advertise' a belief system is
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what to believe. |
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hatred: Do not post racist or
hate-driven material or views which express hatred towards or
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individual or group. |
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Harassment: Do not harrass,
defame, threaten, bully or victimise other members, this includes but is not
limited to sending harassing private
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Trolling: Trolling is strictly
disallowed. We define a 'troll' as someone who's purpose on the site is
to create as much disruption as possible, offend as many people as
possible or otherwise cause disruption intentionally for personal amusement. Behaviour that can
be defined as "trolling" generally involves the posting of knowingly
false or offensive comments or views designed to provoke, bait and annoy
other members. |
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Flamebaiting: Do not
intentionally instigate "flame wars" or bait others in to making personal
attacks. |
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Abusive behaviour: Do not be
rude, insulting, offensive, snide, obnoxious or abusive towards other
members. |
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Do not post sexually suggestive comments,
innuendo or engage in inapropriate sexually oriented personal exchanges
or harassment; purely personal correspondences should always be kept
private. First and foremost this site is intended for discussion on
topical subjects, the services provided should not be used as a means
with which to seek out or pursue intimate relationships; bringing up
personal relationships, disputes or engaging in competitive, possessive,
disruptive or inapropriate behaviour in that regard is disallowed. |
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Multiple usernames: Do not
register more than one account. If you have forgotten your password please use the
password recovery system to retrieve it. If you have forgotten
your login username or are otherwise unable to access your account
please contact us via e-mail for assistance. If you want to change your
account's display name you can do so from the "My Controls" page.
Registering another account and then posting under it in order to either
back up your own arguments, attack other members or otherwise take on
more than one identity is known as creating a "sock puppet" and if
caught you risk having both accounts disabled. |
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Forum groups/gangs: The formation
or promotion of organised groups, clans or gangs is disallowed, as are
organised attempts to harrass other members, disrupt discussions or enforce a certain viewpoint
in any way that prevents fair and unbiased discussion. |
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Thread derailment:
Do not derail or 'hijack' threads with posts
that are either off-topic or designed to draw attention away from what
is being discussed. If you'd like to discuss something different either
start a new thread or find another existing thread which better suits
the area you wish to discuss. |
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Forum warfare:
Do not initiate or participate in
"wars" with other members. Collective or individual
attempts to attack, accuse, discredit or force a certain viewpoint on
other members are disallowed. A "war" can constitute a prolonged series
of disruptive confrontations between specific members or groups of
members with similar beliefs or views, usually with either side accusing
the other of being the aggressor and attacking, criticising and baiting
each other on a regular basis. Action will be taken against members who
instigate or participate in this type of activity. |
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maintaining a friendly discussion environment, please avoid the
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Shouting:
Do not write in all uppercase letters, writing
in this manner is considered "shouting" and makes posts difficult to
read as well as looking unsightly and being annoying to other visitors. |
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Drive-by posting:
Do not respond to threads or gallery
pictures with short one-off responses such as "Fake!" or
"Photoshop!". If you think something is fake then explain why
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Quoting:
Do not quote everything that has
come beforehand in a thread only to add a short response, this not
only clutters up the board but makes threads harder to follow and tends
to be frowned upon by other visitors. Quote tags should only be used to
remove any ambiguity over what you are responding to, only use them when
necessary. |
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Display name:
Please choose a sensible display
name. Display names should contain only alphanumeric characters and must
not contain profanity, racism, sexual references, hatred or relate to illegal activities
such as drug taking. Do not use
your display name to display any web site or e-mail address, or to
impersonate, harrass or offend other members.
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Spelling and grammar:
Do not criticise other members on their spelling, grammar or
punctuation. When writing a post it is always a good idea to check your
own spelling and grammar before submitting it, make sure that what
you've written is clear, makes sense and can be easily understood by
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Signature and avatar: Please be sensible
when it comes to what you put in your profile. Overly large, offensive,
sexually oriented, drug related, flashing or distracting signatures or avatars will be removed.
Signatures should not be used to attack, denigrate or belittle other members or to 'bash' or
mock religious beliefs or views. We reserve the right to remove any
signature that we deem to be unsuitable, inapropriate or disruptive.
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500x150 pixels in size
- Signatures must not contain overly
distracting animated images
- A signature image should not exceed
50k in size
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advertisements
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Moderator action |
| Unexplained Mysteries is a
privately owned web site and as such we reserve the right to remove any
post that we deem to be inappropriate, offensive or intentionally
disruptive, or to take any
action necessary against any member whose behaviour we deem to be
inappropriate, offensive or intentionally disruptive. Action taken is
done on a case by case basis and is dependant on the nature and severity
of the violations, but can include anything up to the banning of the account and IP address. |
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Compliance: You agree to
co-operate with the requests of our site staff should you be asked to
stop doing something that they deem to be disruptive, inappropriate or in
violation of the terms of service. |
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Protest: You agree not to attack,
harrass, threaten
or become abusive towards any member of staff. Members who become offensive or participate in
harassing, threatening or retaliatory action against the site or a member of staff
will be subject to further action. All our moderators are volunteers who
give up their own free time to keep the forum a safe and friendly place,
please treat them with the respect that they deserve. |
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Appeal: If you disagree with
action taken against your account by a member of staff you can appeal
the decision by contacting either the member of staff who took said
action or an administrator privately via e-mail or through our private message
system. Do not start threads on the forum questioning or criticising
moderator action. |
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Access: If your access or posting
rights have been revoked, do not register more accounts in order to
circumvent this restriction or have another member post or deliver
messages on your behalf. Accounts that we find belong to previously
banned members will also be banned. |
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prior notice, and in any situation
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